Textile article provided with lappet figures and the method of producing the same.



PATENTED MAY l5, 1906.

W. A. ROBNSDN. RTICLE PROVIDED WITH LAPPET FIGURES AND THE METHOD TEXTILE A 0F PRODUCING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1904.

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MANVILLE COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,

vTION OF NETVJERSEY.

A CORPORA- TEXTILE ARTICLE PROVIDED yWITH LAPPET FIGURES AND THE METHOD 0F PRODUCING THE SAME.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed May 9, 1904:. Serial No. 206,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. ROBINSON, of Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Textile Articles Provided with Lappet Figures and the `Method of Producing the Same; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Heretofore textile fabrics provided with lappet patterns or designs have customarily been woven in continuous lengths with no line of demarcation between successive articles to be made from the fabric, any desired length of the'fabric suitable for the article to be made-such, for instance, as a window-curtain-being cut off from the fabric. Furthermore, whenever separate or discontinuous -lappet patterns or designs were employed such patterns or designs were comparatively small and of such character that they would necessarily be repeated -a number of times in a lengthof the fabric suitable for the formation of any article of commercesuch, for instance, as a handkerchief or a bureau-cover.

The-present invention consists in weaving a series of articles-such as handkerchiefs, for instance-in a continuous fabric with demarcations between the successive articles, indicatingwhere lthey are to be separated from eachother, each of said articles when thus separated being provided with a single unitary lappet pattern or design.

A further feature of invention consists in producing each of said articles in the continuous fabric by a single repeat of the pattern mechanism, the unitary lappet pattern or design being likewise produced by such single repeat and so that each repeat for the lappet pattern likewse produces a complete article provided with such single unitary lappet pattern or design pertaining to and characterizing the. article as an entirety. In some-cases, as in-v producing such a unitary lappet pattern or design in the form of a border, for instance, a portion of the lappet pattern by one patwidth of the it may be desirable to form tern mechanism and to form another portion of the lappet pattern by another pattern mechanism.

A further feature of invention therefore consists in producing an article having a unitary lappet pattern or design produced at a single repeat, one portion of such unitary lappet pattern being produced by one pattern mechanism and another portion of such unitary lappet pattern being produced by another pattern mechanism, the two portions of the lappet pattern thus formed being matched together to form the complete unitary lappet pattern or design characterizing the article to which it pertains.

The unitary lappet pattern or design referred to lneed not be a continuous lappet figure, but may be, and usually would be, composed of a series of separate lappet figures, and in the drawings, hereinafter to be referred to, the unitary lappet design, consisting in this case of a border, is shown as composed of a series of separate lappet figures in the form of spots.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents two articles-as, for example, two handkerchiefs-woven successively in a continuous fabric, each of said articles embodying a lappet pattern or design in the form of a border composed of individual lappet figures in the form of spots. Figs. 2 and 3 are developments, on a large scale, of two pattern-surfaces to be employed in the production of one of the articles shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A A represent two Afhandkerchiefs or other articles woven successively in a continuous fabric, a portion of which fabric only is shown. The dotted line x a; indicates the point where the two articles are to be separated form each other. In the drawings each article extends the entire fabric and is square in shape. Assuming the fabric shown in the drawings to be, say, fourteen inches wide and the handkerchief or article thus to be fourteen inches square, it is evident that, if desired, a fabricof twice this width, or twenty-eight inches wide, may be woven, in which case two articles fourteen inches square may be woven side by side in the fabric and subsequently separated from each other length- IOO wise of the fabric, as well as crosswise thereof. So` also, 1f desired, art1cles-as, for example, bureau-covers-may be woven with each article extending the width of the twentyeight-inch fabric, thereby forming articles which when separated from each other would be rectangular in shape instead of square, eachy separate article being thus twentyeight inches long and fourteen inches wide.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, in which the unitary lappet pattern or design for the article consists of a border composed of individual lappet figures in the form of spots, a portion of said unitary lappet design or border is produced by one pattern-surface and the other portion of said unitary lappet design or border is produced by another pattern-surface. In other words, the side portions of the border or design comprising the eleven lappet figures or spots a on each side are produced under the control of one pattern-surface-such, for instance, as that represented at Fig. 2-while the cross portions of said border or design comprising the nine lappet figures or spots b on opposite sides are produced under the control of another pattern-surface-such, for instance, as that represented at Fig. 3. These two portions ofthe border or design are matched together, thereby forming the complete border and the complete unitary lappet pattern or design for the handkerchief. It will also be seen that with pattern-surfaces like those shown in Figs. 2 and 3 this entire unitary lappet pattern or design and also the entire article itself are produced by a single repeat of the pattern-surfaces and, on the other hand, that each repeat of the pattern-surfaces produces a complete article provided with a unitary symmetrical lappet pattern or design pertaining to and characteristic of the article as an entirety. It will be further noted that the production of a unitary lappet pattern or design for each article furnishes a guide for the separation of the articles when woven successively in a continuous fabric, the line of division being at a point midway between the termination of one design and the beginning of the next succeeding design.

As will be understood, the invention may be employed in the production of any article which it is desired to provide with a lappet pattern or design, and in the foregoing specification handkerchiefs and bureau-covers are referred to only as illustrations of articles to which the invention is applicable.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method of producing articles provided with lappet patterns or designs, which consists in weaving successive articles in a continuous fabric, and providing, each article with a unitary lappet pattern or design 3. The method of producing articles pro- 1 vided with lappet patterns or designs which consists in weaving successive articles in a continuous fabric, and providing each article with a unitary lappet pattern or design, a portion of which is produced by one patternsurface, and another portion of which is produced by a second pattern-surface, the two portions being matched together to form the complete unitary design, substantially as described.

4. The method of producing articles provided with lappet patterns or designs, which consists Vin weaving successive articles in a continuous fabric, and providing each article with a unitary lappet pattern or design, the two succeeding lappet designs serving as guides for the separation of the articles, substantially as described.

5. An article, such as a handkerchief or the like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design, substantially as described.

6. An article, such as a handkerchief or the like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design composed of individual lappet figures, substantially as described.

7. An article, such as a handkerchief or the like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design composed of individual lappet iigures symmetrically arranged, substantially as described. A 4 I l 8. An article, such as a handkerchief or the like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design produced at one repeat, substantially as described. f

9. An article, such as a handkerchief or the' like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design, said lappet pattern and the article to which itpertains being produced at one repeat, substantially as described.

10. A n article, such as a handkerchief or the like, provided with a unitary lappet pattern or design, a portion of which is produced by one pattern-surface, and another portion of which is produced by a second pattern-surface, the two portions being matched together to form the complete unitary design, substantially as described.

WILLIAM A. ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

W. H. THURsToN, J. H. THURsToN.

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